I have searched alot about this on the forum and did not really find a sollution as to being 'as is' currently.

My problem: When I did not read all messages and close my browser/log off and come back all unread messages are marked as read. Thus I do not know what I did or did not read.

In one of the suggestions threads one told to make a link after using the advanced search function. And make a short url from that to post at the bottom of the categories. So users can click on that to see at least the latest active topics.The suggestion was:Put an * in the author fieldSelect 1 day or 7 days as parameter

But if I do that no posts/topics come up on our forum.Am I being silly here? Nothing seems to get the 1 day or 7 day topics to pop up in my search.

I guess there is no option to script it to not mark unread topics as read if you did not read it yet?

I believe if you log out, it will automatically either mark all things or else forget what was read and what was unread. Thus the reason for your problem. It may also vary on how long goes by between each visit, whether your viewing on different devices or browsers, etc.

Hello. Yes we do have a problem where the icons change to marked read This is not really our side this is down to your browser thinking you have read your posts when you log out of your forum or close the page down.

We are sorry you are facing this problem i can make a report on this matter but as i said it may be that we can not do anything about it if the cookies are not saved on your browser .

Make sure your browser lets you save cookies if your not sure how to do that let me know and i will talk you in with easy steps .. All i will need is what browsers your using.

APE

PS Please also leave a URL to your forum so we can run more tests.Without this i can not make a report to our team.

Well that is a bit weird then when all users have this problem on multiple forums.FireFox, Chrome, IE it happens to all. And it does not matter what forum we use, it happens on this one too.Also does not matter if the browser and such are up to date or not. And my browsers do not clean themselves up either.And people have complained about it before and made suggestions for it to change.

Forumotion is the only one I have come across this. I can open and close a vBulletin as much as I want and nothing gets marked read.

As we do like Forumotion we only are looking for a workaround on it, if that is possible.As I would be content with the suggestion made by SophieDophs in the link I gave too. But I do not really understand how she made her search to display the recent topics. If I put an * in the author field and select 1 day or 7 weeks it does not generate a result at all. dozens of postings are made each day, so that is not way it doesnt display a result.

If you log onto your forum and do not read new posts then log off, those new posts will show as read when you load on again. New posts will only appear when you are not logged on and your members post or when someone post while you are logged on.

I am not sure if there is a script or anything that can prevent this and since it is a browser issue there is not much more we can do. I am not sure if a script exists to fix this or if there is one that could be developed. In any case, we can not help you further or develop a code for you unless we get the url to your forum, if you don't want it visible to the public, you can put it in hidden tags (

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and only those who reply to your topic and moderators will be able to see it.

I appreciate you wanting to help but that is not the issue. Nor a technical issue to have support for as Ape suggests... This is how the forum is programmed. But as many items in the code can be changed by us, I had hoped that that goes for this one too.

It is NOT a browser issue, it is how it is made. And this is for everyone.

SLGray seems to be the only one that understands what I mean

As far as I understood, this afternoon reading about it, about phpbb3 there needs to be some server side information to be stored that is needed to have it save what you did or did not read.

It may be a combination of both how the forum is made and how all the browsers work. See when you login, it places a cookie in your browser, when you post and/or click to view a topic it will mark as read using that same cookie. Now while your still logged in your browser knows what you did and did not read based on this, however, when you log out (now this could be because its either how browsers or work because forumotion just doesnt save a copy of the cookie serverside), it will delete the cookie(s) that were set since you logged in. Now the reason other forums that established likely on a paid server, that you can log out and still have it accuratelly say what you have read and not read (in other words remmeber it), is because those forums probably save a copy of the cookie or whatever server side and link it with your account, so in other words when you login, it will remmeber it because the information is stored on the server under your account, not JUST on the browser.

Forumotion probably does save a copy of the cookies placed during your session on the browser due to the fact that forumotion is a free service providers with millions and millions of forums hosted on it, for it to save every session for every user on every forum would probably overload the servers and simply be too much. When you login to a forumotion forum, your browser and ONLY your browser gets a cookie placed in it, this cookie will remain there until you logout or else your browser cookies, whichever comes first, at which point it will delete the cookies and all information will be forgotten. All browsers work like this, the difference is on forums with paid servers, they save some of the information that your browser usually saves in each session and then forgets, on the server, so the next time you visit, it has data from your previous visit saved and all looks how it did the last time.